vHome Problems

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cutiegirl8292006

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Thanks to Symbian Guru I was introduced a great App called vHome. Basically it's a free version of Handy Shell.

Read the full review here: http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/10/vhome-propels-your-symbian-homescreen-to-new-levels.html

Anyway, I tried to install it and everything looks good and promising. However, I can't get the updating of RSS feed and weather to work. It would stay on "updating" or "searching". I can see the 3G signal turns to 3.5G and back to 3G but nothing happens.

btw, my phone is hacked so I can install the problem without signing. I'm not sure if this is the problem as you must have it signed to have all the functions working.

Help?
 
I don't think you have anything wrong, vHome is pretty rough right now.
The EN port maintainer hasn't posted in a couple of days now, hopefully he is fixing some of the bugs.
The updating of feeds doesn't work for most. I was able to get them to update on my N85 by setting the Access Point in vHome settings to my Wifi. After that I could get some updates setting wireless again, but they were slow.
The calendar display has a bug with large calendar entries, if it tries to display anything long, it crashes. Also if you look forward in your calendar and try to delete a long entry it will crash. The calendar crashes are pretty annoying and show as "settings lost, use defaults, yes or no" in a continuous crash loop.
I imagine some that haven't got it to run at all, simply have calendar entries which crash it on start up.
By deactivating the feeds and the calendar it is pretty stable and is a nice way to add a bunch of home screen shortcuts.
 
i've just downloaded it and got everything to work, including the weather.

but my calendar shows the event for two days later, instead of today's events. it's a weird glitch.

also, i set the right softkey as opera mobile but it only shows "opera mo"

i would also like to know how this app affects battery life.

all in all, i absolutely love the new features: weather on standby screen, the ability to search everything in my phone similar to osx's spotlight, the start menu, putting up to 14 icons on my standby screen instead of just 5...

great app.... wish nokia made the interface as customisable as vhome!
 
using an N8 theme
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it works really well for me, using 3.73a unsigned

newest is 3.79a english
newest chinese is 3.98

heres 3.79a
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taken from another forum

Key features:

Features like Google, weather, news, Operator logo, big clock are pretty straight forward, if you do not like a certain feature, just press C to disable it. Press left/right on to-do bar and news bar could switch item.
Quick task switch: we use the red end key to switch between running tasks, it's lot easier than pressing home key and then select, also you will never quit java apps like Opera Mini/Gmail by accidentally pressing Red key.
Smart dialing: just type one number for one letter, to find any contact fast. Like 2455 for Bill. You can use this for apps, too. Like 46245 for Gmail. You might find phone's menu a bit useless when you can get to anything from home screen with smart dialing.
Start menu: another way to organize your apps, you can locate an app using smart dialing, and place the app in start menu or home screen shortcut easily. And we support sub-folder in start menu.
MyFav: we scan your call logs automatically and place the people you call/text most frequently in MyFav feature, on the home screen's right selection key (of course you can change this with any app you want). Press left/right key in this, you can see your most used apps, too.
vApps: yeah, we include a mini App store, the seventh shortcut. Not too many apps for now (tell us what you want to see here), we want to gather the best free apps here, all fit your phone model (we test and organize them by screen resolution, MR/FP1/FP2 etc., so you don't have to). Just one click to download, auto install to E:, dead simple. (the list is updated automatically, so check in once in a while).
New app popup: after a new app is installed, you would see a popup asking if you would like to run it now. Save you time digging in to menu to find it.
Web directory: Click web browser, you'll see our directory page. All most popular mobile sites (hopefully). If you don't like it, just turn it off in Start-Settings-More
Keypad Lock: sorry the system's settings would not work, please setup again in vHome. Lock is easy: Start-Lock, much better than old way. Press end key twice to unlock.
Connection: by default, vHome update weather/news each hour, 9:00-23:00 (no update if you disable news and weather), change this in Start-Settings-Connection to suit your needs.


its freakin awesome!!

i was gonna start a new thread but this will do
 
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